Conformity Explained
For some reason, I've come across a couple of college guides recently during trips to bookstores. Curious as to what they say about my alma mater-to be, I always look for the page on Dartmouth College.
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For some reason, I've come across a couple of college guides recently during trips to bookstores. Curious as to what they say about my alma mater-to be, I always look for the page on Dartmouth College.
We're seeing a longer, more drawn out Student Assembly campaign this year. This is due to new rule changes that have largely scrapped the designated campaign period those of us who have watched these elections before are used to. The idea is to promote a greater emphasis on personal campaigning rather than a mass blitzkrieg of signs, as has been customary in recent memory. I hope it works out that way and for the first time, a real dialogue about who should be Dartmouth's top student leader emerges rather than a popularity contest or a poster war.
In North Korea, history textbooks used in schools teach that Kim Il-Sung, longtime Communist dictator of North Korea, single-handedly wiped out an entire battalion of Japanese soldiers during World War II. It is clear that the United States of America does not wish to create such a national mythology. Or is it?
Well, the numbers are in from the New Hampshire Primary, and the race continues to get more and more intriguing. Here's my list of who really won and who really lost Tuesday night.
The weather this time of year is annoying: subzero temperatures and blizzards are ubiquitous, and neither my comatose car nor I are feeling particularly well. Being a Massachusetts native, I'm used to all this, but it doesn't make winter more bearable. I only have myself to blame, though, for choosing to come to school here instead of, say, UCLA. But I get the feeling that if I were a conservative, I'd be trying to pin the blame on my local weatherman instead.
I must admit that I hadn't been thinking much about foreign policy lately. But something I saw in the news last week made me stop and think. Recently, New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani took it upon himself to throw Yassir Arafat, head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, out of a concert in New York. He called Arafat "a criminal and a terrorist" in the process.
Like most of you, thanks to the football game with Harvard this weekend, I have most of today off. But unlike most of you, I'm sure, this fact in a way bothers me. And I know what you are all going to say: Why on earth is he complaining about a day off from classes? In my opinion, it speaks volumes about where our priorities lie as an institution if we place a certain football game above our education, which is what we are here for.
When coming up with an idea for a column, I was mulling over the issues of the day -- O.J., Bosnia, Medicare, and the like. But on my way to class one day, I saw that someone had scrawled something on my door that I can't help but comment on.
This summer, a large majority of the U.S. House of Representatives (including my own Representative) voted to approve an amendment to the Constitution prohibiting "flag desecration," whatever that means. This amendment does not really make it clear what constitutes "desecration." If I were to take a photograph of an American flag and ripped it up, would that constitute "desecration?" Who decides? Are we going to have 50 different state laws on this subject?
To the Editor:
The new year here at Dartmouth has hardly begun and already there's more bickering going on in the wonderful world of campus politics. For the uninitiated, this sort of squabbling is unfortunately a sort of revered tradition in this arena; the inevitable media war has already started and will go on nonstop through next year's elections.
By this time, you're probably sick of hearing about the Student Assembly and the antics of its members, especially if you were around to hear about them last year as well. The cynicism is completely understandable. After all, the politicization of the Assembly, while evident last year, has reached ridiculous levels this year.